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2020-07-13 Africa North

Red Cross: 20% of #migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean in June lost their lives

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Posted by Fred 2020-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 In the Boy Scouts, we learned never to get in an overloaded boat and always wear a life jacket.

Posted by SteveS 2020-07-13 00:10|| 2020-07-13 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 with the use of small subs we could get that number up quite a bit.

Posted by Chris 2020-07-13 00:17|| 2020-07-13 00:17|| Front Page Top

#3 20% of invaders.

Not sorry.

Posted by charger 2020-07-13 00:45|| 2020-07-13 00:45|| Front Page Top

#4 This means that 80% got through.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 01:43|| 2020-07-13 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 80% of invaders made it to the assault areas.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-13 06:00|| 2020-07-13 06:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Exactly

Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-13 09:43|| 2020-07-13 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 These numbers should be widely publicized in Africa. You can look at the downside which is that 80 percent of them made it. But in Africa it should be emphasized that you have a 20 percent chance of dying if you make this journey.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-13 12:32|| 2020-07-13 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn shame. Europe should invest in more coastal defenses.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-07-13 13:15|| 2020-07-13 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 you have a 20 percent chance of dying

OTOH, it's a worse rate than the 'rona.

OTOH, where they are trying to leave from doesn't pay welfare like Eurine land does.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-13 13:42|| 2020-07-13 13:42|| Front Page Top

#10 20% reached the nirvana they were seeking.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-13 14:35|| 2020-07-13 14:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, but of the less than 80% who survived (20% is the count of bodies found, not of people lost), how many were returned to Libya rather than transported to Europe? The article does not say.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-13 15:34|| 2020-07-13 15:34|| Front Page Top

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